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MILLIARD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does milliard mean?
• MILLIARD (noun)
The noun MILLIARD has 1 sense:
1. a billion
Familiarity information: MILLIARD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A billion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Context example:
in England they call one thousand million a milliard
Hypernyms ("milliard" is a kind of...):
1000000000; billion; one thousand million (the number that is represented as a one followed by 9 zeros)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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